Lawsuit of RuSHA

The Lawsuit of the RuSHA (officially: " The United States off America vs. Ulrich Greifelt and al.") is the eighth of the twelve lawsuits for War crimes that the American authorities organized in their zone of German occupation to Nuremberg after the Second world war. These twelve lawsuits were held in front of an American military tribunal and not in front of the international military tribunal, but in same the rooms. They are known under the name of " Second Lawsuit of Nuremberg " , or more formally " Lawsuit of the war criminals in front of the military tribunal of Nuremberg".

With the lawsuit of RuSHA, the 14 marked ones were of official of various organizations S responsible for the realization of the program Nazi of " purification of the race" : the office for the race and the settlement ( Shaves und Siedlungshauptamt or RuSHA, created by Walther Darré), the police station of Reich for the consolidation of the germanism ( Reichskommissar für die Festigung of deutschen Volkstums or RKFDV, directed by Heinrich Himmler), the office of rapatriation of German of race ( Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle , VoMi), and the Lebensborn . The charges concentrated on these activities of racial cleaning and displacements of populations.

The judges of this lawsuit, members of the 1st military tribunal of the American army, were Lee B. Wyatt (president), Daniel T.O' Connell and Johnson T. Crawford. The charges were marked the July 7th 1947, and the lawsuit was held of the October 20th 1947 with the March 10th 1948.

Counts of indictment

  1. Crimes against humanity, by the execution of the programs on the " purity raciale" implying the removal of children, the abortion forced not-Aryan expectant mothers , plundering, the deportation of the populations of the occupied countries and the repopulation of these countries by alleged " German of race" ( Volksdeutsche ), the sending of the people having had sexual relationships " interraciales" in Concentration camps, and the participation in the persecution of the Jews in general.
  2. War crimes for the same reasons.
  3. Members of an criminal organization, the Schutzstaffel .

All the defendants were accused with titles 1 and 2, Inge Viermetz was excluded from title 3. All the defendants pled not culprit.

Shown

has — Accusé      C — shown and Condemned

The four members of Lebensborn were not condemned for the counts of indictment 1 and 2. The court considered that Lebensborn was not responsible for the removal of the children who were entrusted to him, perpetrated by other organizations Nazis.

Greifelt mouru with the prison of Landsberg the February 6th 1949. Hildebrandt was given to the Polish authorities. He was again judged in Poland for war crime and was condemned to death. He was hung the March 10th 1952. Hübner, Brückner, and Schwalm were slackenings in 1951. This year, the judgment of Hoffmann and Lorenz were reduced to 15 years, and that of Creutz at 10 years. Hoffmann was released in 1954.

External bonds

  • Trial proceedings from the Mazal Library.
  • Description from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  • Notes one the trial.
  • Lebensborn (in German).

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